The gap of this research was the use of podcast through STAD to teach listening of recount text, some previous research used podcast but still used traditional technique namely, lecturing. This research is conducted on the basis of the researcher’s observation some students feel that listening or hearing the sounds then putting them into mind is difficult to do. And the problem concerns with the crowded teaching situation, the preparation has some difficulties in downloading the material. It means that they have any problems while doing teach listening use podcast. This study is aimed at explaining whether using podcast through STAD to teach listening of recount text is effective to improve the students’ achievement. The method used in this research was quasi-experimental and the design was quantitative. The population of 90 students. This study was first-grade students of MAN 1 Pekalongan. In this research, the researcher used two classes; X-A as the experimental and X-B as the control group. The experimental class was taught using podcast through STAD to teach listening of recount text and the control was not. In collecting the data, the researcher conducted a try out test which was divided into pre-test and post-test. The data collected were analyzed using t-test. According to the result of statistical calcuation, it could be seen that the average score of the experimental class was 82.17 and the average score of control class was 75.83. Furthemore, it was obtained that tcount is higher than ttable (9.262 >2.001). So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. It can be concluded that use podcast through STAD to teach listening of recount text is significantly effective. This result can help a teacher to provide a better technique in teaching recount text and help students to increase their learning interest, and also to improve their achievement.